Domestic apparatus for consuming garbage.



- PATENTED APR. 3, 1906.

E. T.{VALE. I DOMESTIC APPARATUS FOR GONSUMINGVGARBAGE.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 7, 1905.

INVE IiTOR Ezawkzrw WITNESSES UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ELIZABETH T. VALE, ()F SHERIDANVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF -TO GOTTFRED MECKFESSEL, OF SHERIDANVILLE, PENN- SYLVANIA, AND ONE-IIALF. TO JOHN W. VALE, OF OAKDALE, PENN- SYLVANIA.

DOMESTIC APPARATUS FOR CONSUIVIING GARBAGE.

No. 817,022. p v 'Specification of Letters Patent. fatented April 3, 1906. Application filea December 7,1905. Serial No. 290,821.

To all whom it may c the combustion-chamber 3, the flames and Be it known that I, ELIZABETH T.YVALE, of heat arising from the burner not only pass Sheridanville, in the county of Allegheny and through the "slots. 7 and 8, but pass in the 55 State of Pennsylvania, have invented a oerrear ofv and at both sides of the can, where 5 tain new and useful Improvement in Domesthey consume all gases passing from the gartic- Apparatus for Consumin Garbage, of bage. In the combustion-chamber 3 above which the following is a full,c ear, and exact the garbage can 6 is a baflle -plate 11, in description, reference being had to the acrear of which is the flue 12, thatco'mmuni- 6o companying drawings, forming part of this cates with the chimney --fiue. Below the 1o specification, in which burner 10 is the drip-pan 13, as shown in Fig.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of my im- 2, which pan isprovided with a handle 14, proved apparatus. Fig. 2 is a vertical sec that enables it to be withdrawn from the tional view ofthe same. Fi 3 is a horizoncombustion-chamber. In the front of the tal sectional view of the gar age-can on the garbage-can 6 is an outer door 15, which 15 line III III of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a vertical secserves totightly closethe combustion-chamtio nal view of the garbage-canon the line IV ber 3 and yet ,ermit of the withdrawal and IV of Fig. 3. Fig. '5 is a vertical sectional replacement 0 the-can 6. A similar door 16 view showing a modified form of drip-recepin front of the drip-pan 13 serves a similar 7.0 tacle. purpose for this pan. In the modification 2o Like symbols of reference indicate like shown in Fig. 5 a chute 17 takes the place of parts wherever they occur. the drip-pan 13 and delivers the dripping's to My invention relates to an improvement in the chimney-flue 18. In front of the burner domestic apparatus for consuming garbage; 10 is a register 19', by means of which air is 7-5 and it consists in a garbage-can having openermitted to pass to the combustion-cham- 2 5 ings to permit the passage and circulation her for the purpose of supporting combustion of flames and heat, a combustion-chamber therein I built in the structure of the chimney of a I My invention may be applied to chimneys dwelling house, the combustion-chamber bein dwelling-houses by the mere removal of ing provided with a burner and 'a flue or pasthe brickwork and the insertion of the casin 3o sage communicating with the flue of the 4. In new houses the casing may be inserte chlmney, and a'drip pan or chute for the reas the chimney is built. moval of any drippings which may pass What I claim, and desire to secure by Let from the garbage. ters Patent, is' 8 I will now. describe my invention, so that 1. In a domestic garbage-furnace the com- 3 5 others skilled in the art to which it apper- ,bination of a combustion-chamber formed of tains may manufacture and use the same. la casing set in the brickwork of the chimney,

In the drawings, 2 re resents the brick- ,a removable garbage can adapted to be work 'of thechimne an 3 the combustionplaced within the combustion-chamber, a 0 chamber, which is ormed by a metal casing gas-burner situate below the garbage-can in 4o 4 set in the brickwork. Supported on anglethe combustion-chamber, a passage connectbars 5 is the garbage-can 6, which is made of ing the combustion-chamber with the chimmetal, open, at the top and having slots or ney fiue, and a door in the combustior'ropenings 7 in the bottom and vertical slots 8 chamber casing; substantially as specified. formed in one or more of the vertical side 2. In a domestic garbage-furnace the com 45 walls of the can. I In the drawings I have bination of a combustion-chamber formed of shown the slots formed in the .rear wall. In a casing set in the brickwork of the chimney, the front wall is a handle 9, b which the can a removable garbage can adapted to. be may be withdrawn from its p ace in the complaced within the combustion chamber, a

bustion-chamber 3. Below the garbage-can gas-burner situate below the garbage-can in 50 6 in the combustion-chamber 3 is a asthe combustion-chamber, apassage connectburner 10. As the garba e-can 6 is of ess ing the combustion-chamber with the chim depth and width than the epth and width of ney-flue, a door in the combustion-chamber V casing, and a receptacle for the drippings a casing set in the brickwork of the chimney,-

a removable garbage-can having openings in the bottom and in one or more sides and adapted to be placed Within the combustionchamber, a gas burner situate below the garbage-can in the combustion-chamber, a

' passage connecting the combustion-chamber Corrections in Letters Patent No. 817.022.

with the chimneyflue, and a door in the combustion chamber casing; substantially as specified. r

4. In a domestic garbage-furnace the combination of a combustion-chamber formed of a casing set in the brickwork of the chimney,

[sEAn] a removable arbage ea-n adapted 'to be placed within t e combustion-chamber, said garbage-can being of 'less de th and Width than the depth and width of the combustionchamber thereby forming flues at the back andsides of the garbage-can, a gas-burner situate below the garbage-can in the combustion-chamber, a passage connecting the ELIZABETH T.- VALE.-

Witnesses:

ALICE E. DUFF, C. E. EGGERS.

It is hereby certified that Letters Patent No. 817,022, granted April 3, 1906, upon the application of Elizabeth T. Vale, of Sheridanville, Pennsylvania, for an improvement in Domestic Apparatus for Consuming Garbage, was erroneously issued to Gottfred Meckfessel and John W. Vale as owners of the entire interest, whereas said Letters Patent should have been'issued to said Elizabeth T. Vale and Gottfred Meekfessel and John W. Vale, they being joint owners of said invention as shown by ,the record-of assignments in this ofiice; and that in line 8 of the grant and line 4 of the heading of the printed specification, the words one-half should read one-fourth; and that the saidLetters Patent should be read with these corrections therein that the same may conform to the record of theease in the Patent Oflice.

Signedand sealed this 24th day of April, A. 1)., 1906.

B. MOORE,

,Acting Commissioner of Patents.

V casing, and a receptacle for the drippings a casing set in the brickwork of the chimney,-

a removable garbage-can having openings in the bottom and in one or more sides and adapted to be placed Within the combustionchamber, a gas burner situate below the garbage-can in the combustion-chamber, a

' passage connecting the combustion-chamber Corrections in Letters Patent No. 817.022.

with the chimneyflue, and a door in the combustion chamber casing; substantially as specified. r

4. In a domestic garbage-furnace the combination of a combustion-chamber formed of a casing set in the brickwork of the chimney,

[sEAn] a removable arbage ea-n adapted 'to be placed within t e combustion-chamber, said garbage-can being of 'less de th and Width than the depth and width of the combustionchamber thereby forming flues at the back andsides of the garbage-can, a gas-burner situate below the garbage-can in the combustion-chamber, a passage connecting the ELIZABETH T.- VALE.-

Witnesses:

ALICE E. DUFF, C. E. EGGERS.

It is hereby certified that Letters Patent No. 817,022, granted April 3, 1906, upon the application of Elizabeth T. Vale, of Sheridanville, Pennsylvania, for an improvement in Domestic Apparatus for Consuming Garbage, was erroneously issued to Gottfred Meckfessel and John W. Vale as owners of the entire interest, whereas said Letters Patent should have been'issued to said Elizabeth T. Vale and Gottfred Meekfessel and John W. Vale, they being joint owners of said invention as shown by ,the record-of assignments in this ofiice; and that in line 8 of the grant and line 4 of the heading of the printed specification, the words one-half should read one-fourth; and that the saidLetters Patent should be read with these corrections therein that the same may conform to the record of theease in the Patent Oflice.

Signedand sealed this 24th day of April, A. 1)., 1906.

B. MOORE,

,Acting Commissioner of Patents.

Corrections in Letters Patent No. 817.022.

It is hereby certified that Letters Patent No. 817,022, granted April 3, 1906, upon the application of Elizabeth T. Vale, of Sheridanville, Pennsylvania, for an improvement in Domestic Apparatus for Consuming Garbage, was erroneously issued to Gottfred Meckfessel and John W. Vale as owners of the entire interest, whereas said Letters Patent should have been issued to said Elizabeth T. Vale and Gottfred Meekfessel and John W. Vale, they being joint owners of said invention as shown by the record-of assignments in this ofiice; and that in line 8 of the grant and line 4 of the heading of the printed specification, the words one-half should read one-fourth; and that the said Letters Patent should be read with these corrections therein that the same may conform to the record of the case in the Patent Office.

Signedand sealed this 24th day of April, A. D., 1906.

* E. B. MOORE,

Acting Commissioner of Patents.

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